It's spelled 'red-herring', and I don't think that applies.
Ack, that's my awful typo and then not picking it up on a proof read cause I actually did spell a word correctly, even if it was entirely the wrong word! :lol:
I'm a Christian. I'm not one of those "brainwashed" ones.
"Brainwashed" Christians? Nah, :beer: one of my Xian friends who isn't really that theological, if you get my meaning, saw a documentary by "Jim" Cameron claiming they found the site of Jesus' burial, and that he was married Mary Magdalene. Of course, Biblical Scholars, Theologians and Historians all think Cameron's claims are full of crap; he has no credentials to be making such claims and basically released a misleading documentary claiming "
the Church has covered this up!"
Which is a load of nonsense. The Church is unable to cover something like that up, even if they wanted to - since it's public-domain information. Just like the "free energy" episode of Mythbusters.
There will always be those extremist people of every religion.
"Extremist" is such a bad word for the application you're using it in; as it is a neutral word in essence. Better to use more accurate words like hatemongering or murderous or self-idolizing gits. It gives all of us who do things to extremes bad names!
Thanks for chipping in.
Eclouds, you aren't helping this debate/discussion, you're just saying Meksilon is a waste of space. At least contribute something or debate with one of his points at the same time.
Ty.
The point of Meksilon's posts I agreed with the most was "there's a difference between taking money and recieving money". Scientology, they take your money. Christianity, they ask for it.
Thanks. But it in no way covers the full scope of donated money, I mean there are people who "give" to all kinds of charities and have no idea about how it is spent.
There are a thousand charities/non-profit organizations I could mention that do not disclose how they spend their money - and even actively misrepresent or mislead givers into believing their money is spent in ways that it isn't. And people still give and donate to them.
Also, I personally respect people who earn their money far more then those who claim to do God's work, etc, and get their money through government assistance - that's a drain on society; and they're "offsetting" it by contributing to their cause.
So in this regard Scientology isn't really doing anything that isn't done by other tax-exempt corporations (just to "extremes"), however, they are combining this with what is essentially theft. It's theft because the "products" they sell to their members to "improve their happiness" have not been demonstrated to provide the results they claim. And again, the theft of one's money just on its own is not such a big crime - unless it's organized and on a large scale, then you'd better believe it's a crime.
